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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on April 06, 2015, 02:03:08 AM

Title: Rick Pearlman
Post by: Plane on April 06, 2015, 02:03:08 AM
My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

Rick Pearlstein
  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/democrats_10.html#EpDciGtQkOFm8ydk.99

http://www.rickperlstein.net/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sFHbmDTVLBQ
Title: Re: Rick Pearlman
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on April 06, 2015, 12:36:04 PM
Pearlman is a very competent political analyst.

The most effective ways to run for president are to stress fear or hope. These are simple emotions and hardly the most useful real issues, but we can count on every election being based on fear of the always unpredictable and uncertain future combined with a longing for the mythical "good ol' days" and hope for the future as an improvement of "this current mess". No matter how good or bad the situation of the country is, there are always some will always well see it as headed for disaster and others who think they will turn it into the "Shining City on the Hill".



Title: Re: Rick Pearlman
Post by: Plane on April 06, 2015, 07:32:56 PM
His political analysis is poorly thought out and unimaginative.

But he has a wicked sense of humor , and that makes up for a lot.
Title: Re: Rick Pearlman
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on April 07, 2015, 09:24:43 AM
What is poorly thought out about it?